WEIRDEST Things That Could Exist In OUTER SPACE!

Check out the WEIRDEST Things That Could Exist In SPACE! From mysterious unexplained planets to white holes and black matter, this top 10 list of most bizarre objects in outer space has some of the strangest mysteries to date!

11. Doughnut-Shaped Planets
These are technically called toroid planets, and scientists believe they actually exist. Normal planets, like Earth, are round because gravity pulls inward. So how could a planet be shaped like a donut?? For a planet to be shaped like a doughnut, there would have to be an equal outward pressure. This could happen with high enough centrifugal force, but to get the force that strong, the planet would have to rotate at a blindingly fast rate.

10. Moons with Their Own Moons
Scientists believe that there are some moons in the universe that are so massive that they have moons of their own. The physics for something like this to happen are so complicated that it’s believed that submoons (as the moon’s moons are called – they’re also called moonmoons or grandmoons) could only occur outside of our solar system.

9. The Manx Comet
Comets are made of ice, and they have long black tails made of ice and vapor that the comet sheds in its flight. Asteroids, meanwhile, are rocky and have no tails. The Manx Comet is a hybrid of the two – mostly rock, but with enough ice to possibly qualify as a comet, but not enough ice to form a tail.

8. Planet Nine
Pluto used to be the ninth planet in the solar system, until someone decided that it’s actually a dwarf planet and kicked it to the curb. Instead, the ninth planet is one that hasn’t been discovered yet, but which scientists think could exist on the other side of Neptune.

7. White Holes
Everybody has heard of black holes, but what about white holes? Black holes are massive objects or areas in space that have powerful gravitational pulls. It is so strong that not even light can escape. Philosophically, if there are black holes, there must be something that is the complete opposite of one. The other side of the gravitational coin is the black hole’s equal and opposite, the white hole.

6. Vulcanoids
Vulcanoids are small, super-hot asteroids that scientists have hypothesized might exist between Mercury and the sun. They believe this because that region of space is stable, and where there are stable regions in space, there are usually lots of asteroids. Similar stable regions are the area between Mars and Jupiter, where there is an asteroid belt, and the area beyond Neptune, where the Kuiper Belt is found.

5. Synestias
A synestia is a rapidly spinning mass of superheated gas and pulverized rock. It’s been hypothesized but not actually observed, but physics says that it should exist. A synestia is formed when two heavenly bodies – like two planets – slam into one another. The two original bodies are destroyed by the impact, but then the matter that’s left spins and creates new worlds.

4. Chthonian Planets
There are two types of planets: terrestrial, made up of metals and rocks, and gas giants, which have no solid part at all. Astrophysicists also believe that there is a type of planet that starts as one and turns into the other. A Chthonian planet is believed to be created when a gas giant gets too close to the sun. Its gaseous atmosphere burns off, leaving just a small rocky core.

3. Planets Where it Rains Glass
Planet HD 18973b is a beautiful blue planet only 63 lightyears away. Blue should mean water, right? Well, not really! That would be too easy. The planet is believed to be blue due to silicate clouds. Scientists haven’t proven this yet, but they hypothesize that because glass is made of silica or silicon dioxide, rain on Planet HD 189733b is made of molten glass.

2. Gravitational Waves
Gravitational waves are places where the curvature or fabric of space-time is disturbed. (Space-time is the term for a mathematical model used in physics that combines the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum.) Waves are sent outward from the source of the disturbance at the speed of light.

1. Dark Matter
Dark matter is hypothetical, but it’s believed to make up almost 85% of the matter in the universe. It’s believed to be made up of a not-yet-discovered subatomic particle. Dark matter doesn’t interact with light, electromagnetic radiation, or any other observable phenomena, which is where the term ‘dark’ comes from.

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[gachasara]

Time to watch an Origins Explained video!!! These videos are always interesting!!

[zegsi]

This is great... Im a writer and Im writing about a characters living in a medieval era and they live in a torus planet... Only they have 24 hours a day and not 5... Thanks for letting me know the possibilities of a donut planet

[pattifeit]

Very cool video! Interesting as always, Katrina!

[SirCuddlesWorth]

I jut want to thank you for not using a weird narrator voice, it was a very pleasant video..

[raenfox]

Concerning chthonian planets, some scientists seem to believe Mercury to be one of them. It would be one explanation for its unusually high metal content. Not sure what to think of that though. If it was originally a gas giant, it couldn't have formed this close to the sun, but must have migrated inwards. However, had it done that, it probably would've completely disturbed the orbits of the inner planets, flinging them who knows where. Also, apparently there are models that explain the formation of high density metal planets such as Mercury. So I suppose it's anyone's guess.

[GoodVideos]

To me, Pluto is still a planet. According to legend, there are two planets beyond Pluto. If I'm not mistaken, New Horizons discovered one of them. According to legend again, there's a planet closer to the sun than Mercury. Maybe that solar probe will discover it. It also could have once existed.

[teanmace]

Normal people: the earth is round.

The "Flat" Society: no, the earth is flat.

This video: did you know there are planets shaped as doughnuts??

Homer Simpson: donuts 🤤.

[VCYT]

FYI - the Manx cat at 3:37 is from an English island off Britains west coast.
The UK gov use it as a semi tax haven.

[lalalottieland]

I learn more from this channel than I do at school..

[user_vvabkledgiqtrum]

A white hole is in a parallel universe of ours which time runs backwards. The opposite of a black hole is a white hole. The same singularity as a black one. As things get sucked into a lack hole, things, or objects, get spewed out of the white hole. We cannot prove that these things exist, because you only end up dead going into a black hole. The gravatational line is pretty much infinite between these two holes.

[iiasquelliaii-alsodontaska]

At the 3rd one I was like*that's how I saw glass falling from the sky*

[larrybothe]

Katrina, while you may not get everything correct, you certainly sound as tho you took a few Science classes and not the Humanities track. Either that or you’re an excellent script reader. 🙂
At any rate, keep up the great work narrating and I’ll keep watching these videosi..!!

[donnasoelberg-stricklan]

Doughnut planet, better call the cops!

[toxicscar]

The rocky core is formed because whatever the heavy stuff is melting will go to the centre to be a part of the core and as the gas outside evaporates the cold space will freeze the outer layer of that core. Be it metal or minerals.🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[shaniekawilliams]

I only like and sub because I really like the video

[cynthiareynolds]

What about the planets in our solar system that has more than one Moon

[GoodVideos]

Maybe these things are true, maybe they are not. And, maybe some are.

[xananymous]

Planet shaped like doughnut..? Sounds like a planet from halo

[kathrynnixon]

First, very interesting. Second, thank you for keeping it as a fully “theoretical” view. As nothing is fully fact in anything like donut planets and even the “Big Bang” is still theory. The facts are that science is full of theories, few major scientific space theories can be proven. Also, very cool imaging!